* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

* 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer ( d. 1977 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1898 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1898 – An Armistice ends the Spanish – American War.

* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

By Spanish actress María del Carmen Ruíz y Moragas ( 1898 – 1936 ):

* Alfons Gorbach ( 1898 – 1972 ), Austrian politician

* Miff Mole, ( Irving Milfred Mole, 1898 – 1961 ), American jazz trombonist and band leader

** Irving Rapper, American film director ( b. 1898 )

Irving Rapper ( 16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999 ) was a British film director.

Irving Milfred Mole, better known as Miff Mole ( 11 March 1898 – 29 April 1961 ) was a jazz trombonist and band leader.

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

In 1898 Irving was Rede Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.

These were: Bryan ( 1896 – 1977 ), who became a producer at Warner Bros ; Charley ( 1898 – 1984 ), an actor ; Mary ( 1901 – 1987 ); Madeline ( 1903 – 1988 ), an actress ; Eddie Jr. ( 1905 – 1983 ), who carved out a successful career as an actor and entertainer on stage and screen, including a role in The Pajama Game and Bells Are Ringing ; Richard ( 1905 – 1947 ); and Irving ( 1908 – 2003 ), a writer.

* Harry Brodribb Irving, Life of Judge Jeffreys ( London, 1898 ).

Jerome Irving Rodale ( surname accented on second syllable ) ( August 16, 1898 – June 8, 1971 ), was a playwright, editor, author, and founder of Rodale, Inc.

In 1898 he formed a well known partnership with Irving Gill.

* 1898 State Normal School ( with Irving Gill, demolished )

Bram Stoker worked between 1878 and 1898 as business manager of the theatre, and Irving was Stoker's real-life inspiration for the character Count Dracula in his 1897 novel, Dracula.

The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains.

Real film continuity, which means showing action moving from one shot into another joined to it, can be dated to Robert W. Paul's Come Along, Do !, made in 1898.

* 1898 – Margaret Booth, American film editor ( d. 2002 )

The earliest known propaganda film was a series of short silent films made during the Spanish American War in 1898 created by Vitagraph Studios.

* 1898 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer ( d. 1986 )

* 1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( 23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948 ), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the " Father of Montage ".

** Norman Z. McLeod, American film director ( b. 1898 )

** Leo McCarey, American film director ( b. 1898 )

* February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director ( b. 1898 )

** Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor ( b. 1898 )

* August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and writer ( b. 1898 )

* October 28 – Mitchell Leisen, American film director ( b. 1898 )

* December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( b. 1898 )

* March 15 – René Clair, French film director ( b. 1898 )

* Moulin Rouge Dancers 1 & 2 ( 1898 )-USA-silent film about the Moulin Rouge

Birt Acres was the first to attempt an amateur format, creating Birtac in 1898 by slitting the film into 17. 5 mm widths.

Thomas Leo McCarey ( October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969 ) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Probably his most popular short narrative among today's readers, " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1898 ) is a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation.

North of the Westfield shopping centre itself, the grade II listed Dimco Buildings ( 1898 ), now refurbished as a bus depot were used as the location for the ‘ Acme Factory ’ in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?.

The film company spent $ 250, 000 building a replica gunboat named the San Pablo, based on the USS Villalobos -- a former Spanish Navy gunboat that was seized by the U. S. Navy in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 – 99 ) -- but with a greatly reduced draft to allow sailing on the shallow Tam Sui and Keelung rivers.